Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.